Ones to  watch:

• Amazon
• Pearson
• Academic publishers
• Writers
• Educators
• University Faculties
• Schools
• Research in and of faculties.
• Initiatives to give eReaders preloaded with course books to students.
• Proactive use of eReaders by learners, say junior doctors.
• Research in schools. Related research on mobile learning.
• Drivers include cost savings.

The purchase of books and their distribution is expensive compared to digital versions that are easily uploaded and include a multitude of affordances:

• highlighting,
• book marking,
• annotating,
• sharing,
• searching …

Whilst digital versions of millions of books, journals and papers increase access and scope of reading, developers are producing new interactive, multimedia formats even blending eBooks into the learning process with assessment and student analysis through quizzes and games.

A student can find rapidly from vast sources the material they need to see, though distraction is an issue. They can fast track through ‘reading’, branch out or study something else in parallel.

Has this been cornered by Martin Weller?

The Institute of Educational

Technology at the OU is a leader.

Ones to watch:

• Paul Anderson
• Graine Conole
• Tim O’Reilly
• Eileen Scanlon
• John Seely Brown
• George Siemens
• Clay Shirky
• Rhona Sharpe
• Lave
• Wenger
• M Wesch
• Victor
• Mayer-Schonberg
• Adam Greenfield
• Brian Kelly
• Stephen Heppel

Ones to follow:

• Martin Weller
• Helen Beetham
• Rhona Sharpe
• Allison Littlejohn
• Chris Pegler
• Sara De Frietas

Open Access: Guardian Higher Education Network